About Mark Twain:

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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Author Bio

NameMark Twain
DescriptionAmerican author and humorist
AliasesSamuel Langhorne Clemens; Samuel Clemens
BornNovember 30, 1835
DiedApril 21, 1910
CountryUnited States Of America
ProfessionJournalist; Humorist; Novelist; Children's Writer; Autobiographer
WorksAdventures Of Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

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